Knock knock knocking on rhythm's neural doors
Drum the tip of a finger on a typewriter key quickly "eeeeee." Now, stop and type "e" take a moment, type "e," take another moment, type "e" again. The motion in both cases is exactly the same, performed by the same finger. But the brain processes that make th...New anti-inflammatory strategy for cancer therapy identified by UCSD researchers
... destroying their advantage, and allowing TRAIL to tip the balance in its favor," Luo said. The study builds upon previous work in the Karin lab recently featured as the cover article in the August 6, 2004 issue of the journal Cell*. In that study, the researchers provided the first evidence of the mo...Genetic analysis rewrites salamander's evolutionary history
...c" tongues that have no muscular attachment at the tip and can be hurled out nearly the length of the salamander's body. Wake has shown in previous studies that these tongues are not a good way to classify salamanders, because the various types of tongues have evolved several times in different lineages....Molecular staples shape a cancer killer
...k down some of the impact of that BCL-2, you would tip that lymphoma cell over the edge toward death." Korsmeyer, Walensky, and their colleagues are now developing and testing different hydrocarbon-stapled BH3 domains against a range of cancer cells. Ultimately, they believe that further development of ...Asian elephant sex pheromone transporter revealed
...place" responses, where the male touches his trunk tip to the pheromone-loaded urine. Next, the male places the pheromone urine in his mouth, in a behavior known as flehmen, after which mating behavior typically ensues. The sex pheromone therefore has to travel through and survive a number of different e...ASU researchers demonstrate new technique that improves the power of atomic force micrscopy
...hed antibodies keyed to individual proteins to the tip of an AFM's probe. When an antibody reacts with th...ptors. A magnetically excited cantilever makes the tip oscillate up and down to make the antibody disconnect and reconnect and keep the probe moving. A key...Huge market for forest moss raises concerns
...y permit or private legal arrangements is just the tip of the iceberg of actual harvests. "Any penalties for illegal taking of moss are usually small and rarely enforced," Muir said. "There also is a lack of record keeping and reporting on many public lands, and clearly some illegal harvesting...Lake research offers clues to managing crayfish invasions
... among rusty crayfish, fish and aquatic plants may tip the scale, favoring either the invader or native species. This knowledge, the researchers note, may lead to new strategies for removing these trespassers. Details of the research will be presented Wednesday, Aug. 4, at the annual meeting of the Ecolo...Whale carcass yields bone-devouring worms
...nclusion that the two new worm species are but the tip of the iceberg (or perhaps the tip of the whale's tail). Whale carcasses-or whale falls, as they are called-represent a massive input o...Protein key to trafficking in nerve terminals
...ding, these vesicles fuse with the membrane at the tip of the nerve ending (called the synaptic membrane). At this point, vesicles release their contents so that a nearby cell receives the message. "You need to retrieve the vesicles at the synapse to maintain a constant supply of vesicles in the ner...Scientists describe the world's smallest, lightest fish
...00,000 of these fish weighed together would barely tip the scales at one pound. A full scientific description of the animal was published in the latest issue of Records of the Australian Museum. The first stout infantfish was captured in 1979 by the Australian Museum's Jeff Leis during fieldwork in the L...ORNL nanoprobe creates world of new possibilities
...logies. The probe is an optical fiber tapered to a tip measuring 100 nanometers with an extremely thin coating of nanoparticles of silver, which induces the surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) effect. Normally, when a sample is illuminated by a laser beam, there is a small reflection of light, known...Chipmunks descended from ancestors that survived last ice age, scientists say
...organisms. DNA was taken from tissue from the very tip of an ear of each chipmunk after the animals were captured in live traps. The chipmunks were released at the same sites of their capture. The DNA, from which 964 unambiguous base pairs were identified, was then analyzed for evolutionary relationshi...Mitochondria in spinal cords is ALS target according to UCSD medical researchers
...Cancer Research. He added that "the SOD1 may also tip the balance and induce mitochondria to send a cell death signal to the motor neurons." In laboratory studies with tissue from animals and humans, the UCSD team determined that the mutant SOD1 ignores all other mitochondria in cells and tissue outside...Technology could enhance accuracy of breast biopsy
...read down the existing hollow biopsy needle to the tip to help them find the right area to sample. The researchers are testing probes in both the near-infrared wavelength, which allows light to go deeper but probes fewer molecules, and UV-visible wavelength range, which allows them to probe a large numbe...Flies may taste bitter better, first map of insect 'tongue' reveals
...e insect body -- on taste bristles and pegs at the tip of the insect labellum, and in clusters of taste cells in the pharynx. Still other taste sensors are found on the fly's legs and along the margin of the wings. Each tasting bristle or peg contains chemosensory nerve cells bearing receptor proteins th...Volcanic soils yield new clues about the emergence of powerful chiefdoms in Hawaii
...la a comparatively young volcano on the northwest tip of the island of Hawaii. Early Polynesians created a vast agricultural complex on the volcano's southwest flank, where they raised sweet potatoes and other dryland crops. Remnants of long-abandoned fields including rows of earthen walls once used as...Discovery of tiny microbes in ancient Greenland glacier may define limits for life on Earth
... assess its ecological role. We now know just the tip of the iceberg of all the microbes that exist on Earth, and it generally is believed that a large portion of these unknown microbes are very small in size," Miteva says. "A major challenge is to develop novel approaches for growing some of these pre...Small, cold, & hungry: Ultra-small microbes from 120,000-year-old glacier ice sample
...assess its ecological role. "We now know just the tip of the iceberg of all the microbes that exist on Earth, and it generally is believed that a large portion of these unknown microbes are very small in size," Miteva says. "A major challenge is to develop novel approaches for growing some of these pr......sts an optimal shape of the contact surface of the tip of such hairs which gives rise to optimal adhesion...action. According to their model, the shape of the tip of the fiber strongly affects the adhesion strength. It is shown that there exists a specific shape,...